Re: [Boost-users] FileSystem - Test if file exists without opening thefile?

Jeff wrote:

Hello,

I can see from a FileSystem example how to check for the existence of a directory. What I would like to be able to do is to check for the existence of a file but I couldn't figure out how to do it using exists().

The way that I currently check for a file's existence is by opening the file. I wonder if boost::filesystem can test for a file's existence more efficiently than having to open it like I do in the snippet below.

// checking for file existence by opening the file ifstream source(fileName); if (source) ...

What about (Boost 1.34): #include ... boost::filesystem::exists(fileName); / Johan